I have not quite figured out what might be the best way for me to do this but...

I took several pictures today, some right around my house -- the trees I will follow carefully and some a little ways off.

I am in Corvallis Oregon 44° 33' 53" N

I will start with this "odd" one -- I have no idea what it is and it looks like the leaves might fall soon.

Hi, Alice -a guess: katsura, the peppercake tree, Cercidiphyllum - the way the leaves hang, their slightly heart-shaped form, the rather uniform colour, the angles and shape of trunk. Try a Google image search, one picture here.Katsura has a long garden history, so there are a number of cultivars, as with aspen - makes identification trickier.(Link to Alice's post with photo of tree)

I seem to remember my leaves doing this once -- I thought it was just lack of water but maybe it is really less water coupled with cooler night time temperatures and/or shorter days. I know that since then I have underwatered mine but never again have the leaves gone red.

Bairbre - Geranium leaves turning red:Yes, quite often, when they are in very dry conditions and usually strong sun, maybe helped on by poor soil too. In the middle of summer too. But there may be a number of other things that bring red colour on.Alice - the katsuraas a matter of fact I took a picture the same day as yours of "my" katsura, just haven't done anything about the pic yet. The katsura here in Stockholm is still all green, no hint of colour. Later it usually turns pure yellow (and no whiff of peppercake bake, ever).

The Katsura Tree is an interesting case -- the common name you used in not used here. When I googled it I got recipes -- with the Latin name it was a snap. I think I might have found another one -- closer to my house, but now I am going to go back to both of them and see if I can find a scent of any sort.

This is why I said I was not sure how best to do it. Countries are pretty big and/or diverse in terms of weather and seasons -- but then as of now we do not have many representatives from any one country. I was grouping mine by species to some extent to attempt to provide order -- probably seems confusing.

Re my geraniums, I water them at least twice a week and they are in shade all morning and part of the afternoon from the maple tree, sun from about 2pm until sunset????

I had these same plants, in the same planters, in the same location last year and the leaves remained green until I brought them inside for the winter????

Oh, and I put fresh potting soil in the planters last spring before putting them outside.

Everyone is commenting on how pretty they look, but I want them to survive for another year.

As I said it happened to me only once and I am sure my geraniums lasted for several more years (wintered in the garage) -- I may still have some. But I do think they have experienced a little more stress than usual.

It would be easy to have separate topicsAutumn in Canada Autumn in OregonAnother part of USAA Oh, no - we should have to call it fall, over there!!

We shall sort out something soon.Or, each time we update with a new picture, each member could give a link to the earlier pics of the same area.So many ways of getting confused - - -

A suggestion.... why not put a very small copy of the previous picture next to the most recently taken one... then you could see the change as it happens??

I kind of like this idea - new images with a link and or a photo from before. So I can see Toronto and Oregon next to each other easily, but maybe separate threads might be easier, for the posters and it would be nice to encourage more posters. Truth to tell I deal with chaos well so I will be content.

Could we have threads for each area we now have created, and then copy the images and leave this thread as is for autumn chatter? New threads for new areas or posters could be created as needed. It would keep the visuals clear and clean and allow chatter, but it would require some links from our picture threads to our chat.

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